What is the reason why the ruling class, including the GOP establishment, hates Sara Palin so passionately? The left and its propaganda machine have always looked down on conservatives, but the attacks...MORE

"Not One of Us""If Barack Obama has been the most remarkable phenomenon of the recent political scene, Sarah Palin must be second. The emotional responses to each-- especially by the media and the intelligen...MORE

Can you imagine someone getting elected as vice-President who:
has several young kids at home
loves to be in the outdoors
treats guns like they are normal things to have around hunts for animals and eats ...MORE

In "Sarah", the first biography released of Governor Palin, author Kaylene Johnson draws upon personal interviews with Palin, her family, and other highly placed sources to explore Palin's family life, her u...MORE

“What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?” “One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy. “The other kills her own food.” "Now we k...MORE

Posted By:DOC
on 9/4/2008 07:26 AM in
Sarah Palin. Published on 9/3/2008.

"John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, as his running mate finally gave Republicans a reason to vote for him -- a reason, that is, other than B. Hussein Obama. The media are hopping mad ab...MORE

Posted By:GOP
on 9/3/2008 12:01 PM in
Sarah Palin. Published on 9/3/2008.

SHE is the moose-hunting mum-of-five who could soon be the second most powerful person on the planet.Ex-beauty queen Sarah Palin has arrived out of the political — and geographical — wilderness t...MORE

"The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread"

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Benjamin Disraeli

"The man that sets out to change the world without first changing himself is a fool"

"A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality"

"If voting made a difference they wouldn't let us do it."

Mark Twain

"Does reality influence the news, or is it the news that influences reality?"

WAG

"Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but what happens inside your house"

Barbara Bush

“Truth is like poetry, and most people hate poetry”

“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”

Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

"That to which we aspire, though cannot attain, we often tear down"

WAG

“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

"A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks"

Charles Gordy

"When the Federal Reserve cites statistics to claim that there is not much evidence of inflation, we need to keep in mind that the statistics they rely on exclude food and energy prices. The cost of living is no sweat if you can do without electricity and food."

Thomas Sowell

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws"

Ayn Rand

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”

Mark Twain

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them"

Alfred Adler

“A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed often, and for the same reason."

Mark Twain

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"

Thomas Jefferson

"Go put your creed into your deed."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The government that can give you everything you want, can take everything that you have"

"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research"

"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke off the unused path"

"The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas"

“There's nothing better than a friend ... unless it's a friend with chocolate.”

Charles Dickens

"A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying,"

Saint Pope John Paul II

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little"

Mark Twain

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”

Benjamin Franklin

"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."

Justice Felix Frankfurter

"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money."

Daniel Webster

"Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it"

Edmund Burke

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it."

Frederic Bastiat

“GOD may not lighten my load, but HE will strengthen my back.”

"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty"

Eugene McCarthy

"The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits."

Albert Einstein

“I fear not the individual who occupies the Oval Office, but the people who elected him to that office.”

"The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese"

“The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them”

Jason Laumark

“The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie”

Ann Landers

“You learn a lot about people not just by what they say, but by what they don't say”

“No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury”

Alexander Tytler

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity"

Alexander Pope

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors
of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

Thomas Jefferson

"One man with a gun can control 100 without one"

Vladimir Lenin

"How the media reports what they report (their bias) is important. What they choose to report (or not report) is equally important"

WAG

“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”

James Madison

"The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard"

“When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already....”

Adolph Hitler

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men"

Thomas Henry Huxley

"Welfare is mistrusted by those who pay for it, and held in contempt by those who receive it"

“In a free country the monetary unit rests upon a fixed foundation of gold or gold and silver, independent of the ruling politicians.”

Howard Buffett

"If I could live my life over again, I wouldn't have time"

Bob Hope

"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done"

George W. Bush

"Truth will always fuel the embers of liberty"

WAG

“When the truth hurts, or is otherwise offensive, it is inappropriate.”

WAG

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

James Madison

“Liberalism is not really a political philosophy. Instead, it is a state of arrested emotional development. It is a way of thinking, which leads to no place in the real world. It is a place existing only in the imagination”

Mike S. Adams

"Before you open your mouth to speak, please make sure it's an improvement upon the silence"

“May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past”

“Man is not free unless government is limited … As government expands, liberty contracts”

Ronald Reagan

"Ignorance is the truest form of freedom"

"The only real power comes out of a long rifle"

Joseph Stalin

“When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Never allow success to go to your head, nor failure to your heart."

"The day that you are born is the day that you begin to die"

William Faulkner

"Life without GOD is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point"

"It is said that all humor has a little bit of truth to it. Sarcasm, it is said, often contains a lot of truth with the thinnest veneer of humor."

"Golf is a good walk spoiled"

Mark Twain

"Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition"

Common Sense: “when we remove the sense, it becomes all too common”

WAG

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

George Orwell

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them"

Mark Twain

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones"

Phillip Brooks

"If you choose public service, choose it to serve the public, not your bank account. When you're done serving, go home. Get a real job."

Jack Abramoff

"I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you"

"We are great because we are good"

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government"

Thomas Jefferson

"The experiment of self-government can't work where people do not govern themselves"

James Madison

“Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation”

Fletcher Knebel, Historian

Scheme: “To be shady or otherwise use intellectual power to deceive or carry out a plan for a personal interest. To plan to do something to get someone’s money, most often by cheating.”

"TRUTH is a hard, and often bitter, pill to swallow."

WAG

“Always love your country — but never trust your government”

Robert Novak

"I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure"

"Media outlets exist not to inform us, but to influence us; not to educate us, but to enrich themselves"

WAG

"It took Teddy Kennedy longer to call the police after his Oldsmobile sunk at Chappaquiddick, than it took the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard"

Rush Limbaugh

"Let it never be said that failure arose from lack of effort"

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

Orison S. Marden

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty."

James Madison

"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt."

Sam Adams

Yesterday is history; Tomorrow is a mystery: Today is a gift, that’s why we call it the Present"

Winnie the Pooh

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap"

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people"

Victor Borge

"Nothing beats a failure but the failure to try"

"Wings on a Pig Don't Make It an Eagle."

"One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

Moliere

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.”

John Wayne

“A woman's outfit should be like a barbed-wire fence - serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”

Sophia Loren

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend"
.

Martin Luther King, Jr

“The largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative and incentive.”

John F. Kennedy - special message to Congress on tax reduction and reform (1/24/63)

"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself"

Ronald Reagan

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder"

George Washington

“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.”

Martin Van Buren

"Freedom is never won in a single battle - It must be fought for every day"

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"

Mark Twain

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent"

Abraham Lincoln

"When you vote to allow the taking of another life, you are complicit in the taking of that life."

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value"

Albert Einstein

"Nothing is more destructive to a democracy than ignorance and an uniformed citizenry"

"There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the world"

Thomas Jefferson

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

Mark Twain

“The American people are the passengers aboard the Titanic… And Obama is at the helm.”

Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt

"If you're not out there upsetting idiots, you just might be yourself an idiot"

Ted Nugent

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"An armed man is a citizen; a disarmed man is a subject"

"All receive advice - only the wise profit from it"

Syrus

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation"

"Don't steal - The government hates competition"

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Inflation rewards debt – and erodes savings. It is legalized counterfeiting, the deliberate creation of money with nothing to back it up."

"Be good, stay healthy, and laugh often."

WAG

"Lies influence the ignorant, and inflame the informed"

WAG

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left"

"The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office"

Will Rogers

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity"

Karl Marx

"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"No Man is a Failure who has Friends"

It's A Wonderful Life

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government"

James Madison

“Every library is an arsenal”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is opened"

"Democracy is the road to socialism."

Karl Marx

"Few men think, yet all will have opinions"

George Berkeley

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand"

Mark Twain

"If Mother Nature doesn’t get you, Father Time will"

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."

Charlton Heston

"Police in Austria are looking for a bank robber who wears a Sarah Palin mask while committing robberies. He started out with a Barack Obama mask, but no one took him seriously"

Jay Leno

"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have."

“Bureaucracy -- the organizational weaknesses that cause smart people to make dumb decisions”

"Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get”

Kinky Friedman

"We are fast approaching a time when the majority sign the back of the check, rather than the front"

“It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”

Patrick Henry

"Feed a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality"

Ayn Rand

"Republicans in Washington have shown that the word ‘cave’ is a noun in places like Afghanistan, but it’s a verb in places like Congress"

Rush Limbaugh

"For those who have fought for it, freedom has a taste the protected will never know."

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it"

Bob Hope

"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"A nation of sheep will get a government of wolves"

Edward R. Murrow

“Great men set out not to be great, but to do great things”

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty"

Thomas Jefferson

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies"

Thomas Jefferson

“About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation”

Will Rogers

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”

Henry David Thoreau

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together"

"In politics, never let facts get in the way of a good story"

WAG

“Success in business, as in life, requires character, confidence, consistency, commitment and courage. It's a marathon, not a sprint"

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

Mark Twain

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward"

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws”

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"If you tell the truth often enough, people will come around to believing it"

"A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station"

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman"

Margaret Thatcher

"If most thinking people supported me it still wouldn't be enough. Because in America, you need a majority."

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Continuing to do nothing and expecting things to change"

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution”

"Hey, don’t get me wrong. I 'm all for the government (spending) investing our money into “shovel” ready projects, so long as I’m the one selling the shovels."

WAG

“To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth”

"When you give a monkey the choice between an addictive drug and food, it will starve to death."

Rick Perry

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

George Washington

"Ask not that GOD be on our side, insist that we be on His"

WAG

"The best thing you can do for the poor is not become one"

Reverend Ike

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty"

Thomas Jefferson

"History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall"

Adolf Hitler (1939)

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

Benjamin Franklin

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

Dave Gardner

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

Winston Churchill

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly"

Robert Schuller

"The US dollar is backed by little more than confidence. Confidence in people's lack of understanding of how America's monetary system functions."

"Life………. It’s GOD’s choice"

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read"

Mark Twain

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

Antonio Porchia

"For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes"

Mark Twain

"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

Pietro Aretino

"The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry"

Maya Angelou

"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain"

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable"

Mark Twain

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

Thomas Paine

"There has never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others."

David Boaz

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it"

William Arthur Ward

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."

James Bovard

"Real courage is found, not in the willingness to risk death, but in the willingness to stand, alone if necessary, against the ignorant and disapproving herd"

Jon Roland (1976)

"A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”

“I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS”

Malcolm Forbes (when asked if he was afraid of terrorism)

"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.”

Margaret Thatcher

"Never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel"

Mark Twain

"I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality"

Bob Hope

"When you find you’re digging yourself into a hole, I always say dig faster, you’ll get to the bottom sooner."

WAG

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred."

Jacques Barzun

“We always have enough time to do a job a second time – and never enough time to do it right the first time”

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

James Madison

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

Margaret Thatcher

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

George Orwell

“I am an ignorant American and proud to be in the majority.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

John F. Kennedy

"An ignorant electorate, every politician's lifeblood."

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

Robert A. Heinlein

"If you want to protect vital national security secrets from WikiLeaks, just put them in the same vault as Obama's birth certificate"

Mike Huckabee (a.k.a The Guv)

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."

George Washington

“Accept the past, look to the future, live in the present”

"A free people ought to be armed"

George Washington

"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns"

Joseph Stalin

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery”

Winston Churchill

"You can't have freedom of speech, and at the same time have people not being offended"

Rush Limbaugh

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil”

Ayn Rand

"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment"

Willis Player

"Statistics are not meant to inform, but to deceive"

WAG

"Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine."

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

Kenneth Boulding (economist)

"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up"

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

Alexander the Great

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance"

Joseph Stalin

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Don’t tell me how ruff the water is – just bring in the ship."

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance."

James Madison

"A good day is when no one shows up and you don't have to go anywhere."

Burt Shavitz (Burt's Buzz)

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense"

Mark Twain

"For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time."

George Sutherland

"Every member of the State ought diligently to read and to study the Constitution [the documents] of this country...By knowing their rights they will sooner perceive when they are violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them."

John Jay, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

"If we're dealing with Islamic nations, the suspects are Middle Eastern. Some people call that profiling. Law enforcement people would call it a clue."

Wayne LaPierre

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"

Thomas Edison

"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut"

Sam Rayburn

“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains”

Winston Churchill

“To be clever enough to get all that money, you must be stupid enough to want it”

G. K. Chesterton

"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders"

Larry Elder

"What if there was a cure for the disease we call LIBERLISM? There is, and it's called REALITY (one dose daily)."

WAG

"In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

George Orwell

"Truth has no agenda"

''Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.''

Charlotte

"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory"

"Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves."

Author Unknown

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and them misapplying the wrong remedies”

Groucho Marx

"If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates"

Jay Leno

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal."

“The news is not about news anymore. It’s about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.”

Charlie Daniels

"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."

Anatole France

"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."

Richard Henry Lee (1787)

"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use"

Joseph Stalin

"He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all."

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

William Pitt

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get"

Mark Twain

"It is never too late to be what you might have been"

George Eliot

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born"

Ronald Reagan

"The most valuable thing you can spend on your children is your time"

"The last time France needed more proof it rolled through the streets of Paris in the form of a German tank"

David Letterman

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical”

Thomas Jefferson

"Why is it that so many individuals place their trust in people to solve the very problems which those people created in the first place?"

WAG

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter"

Mark Twain

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."

Herbert Spencer

"Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation"

Peter Drucker

“Be truthful … Truth leads to trust”

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but it is wise if we are foolish"

"Comedy brings out laughter, tragedy fear. Hopelessness leads to despair, sadness a tear.
It takes a unique individual who can elicit all of these emotions by the mere mention of their name – Obama is a unique individual"

WAG

"Al Gore proved that you can win the Presidential election without a single Southern state"

John Kerry

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do"

Joseph Stalin

"I know of no way to judge the future but by the past"

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine"

Lord Byron

"I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.”

Margaret Thatcher

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”

Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf )

"Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back"

Steven Wright

“Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Should FDR have warned us about Pearl Harbor?"

Rush Limbaugh

“If no American voted on election day, what would Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory be?”

Ineptocracy: (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of achieving, and where the members of society least likely to succeed or even to sustain themselves, are abundantly rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

Thomas Jefferson

"Truth Does Not Fear Knowledge"

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means"

Albert Einstein

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves”

Thomas Sowell (1992)

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in time of great moral crisis"

Dante Alighieri

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"I am an American voter, ignorant of my ignorance."

"The more comfortable you make welfare recipients, the more welfare recipients you will have."

WAG

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

George Washington

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

George Washington

"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind"

Hugo Black

"I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds. ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution"

Grover Cleveland

“You cannot strengthen the weak, by weakening the strong.”

Abraham Lincoln

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

Vladimir Lenin

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."

Isaac Asimov

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour"

"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."

Dave Barry

"Sports do not build character, they reveal it."

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."

Aristotle

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds"

Francis Bacon

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

Mark Twain

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."

W. Somerset Maugham

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

Paul Horning

“Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.”

Napoléon Bonaparte

"Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

Abraham Lincoln

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence"

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

Lyndon B. Johnson

"You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom"

"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation"

Adlai E. Stevenson

“The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it.”

Thomas Jefferson

"For when democracy becomes tyranny, those of us with rifles still get to vote"

"To delve inside the liberal progressive mind, one must endure a dark and errie place, absent all logic and devoid all reason and common sense"

WAG

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical"

Yogi Berra

“I may be ignorant, but I’m in the majority”

American Citizen

"We are a government of laws, and not of men"

John Adams

"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."

Enrico Fermi

"Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does"

Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

"Modern day liberalism is a disease that literally has the power to poison the character of those who fall under its spell"

Rush Limbaugh

"Blaming guns for spree killings is like blaming short skirts for rape."

“There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do”

Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If the continued existence of mathematics depended on the ability of the Republicans to defend the proposition that two plus two equals four, that would probably mean the end of mathematics and of all the things that require mathematics.”

Thomas Sowell

"A day without laughter is a day wasted"

Charlie Chaplin

"I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees."

American Patriot

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."

James A. Garfield

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party"

Joseph Stalin

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”

Margaret Thatcher

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years you would have a shortage of sand.”

Milton Friedman

"Governments have killed more innocent people than all the wars combined. 170 MILLION in the 20th Century alone."

"I’ve had my fun and I didn’t enjoy it"

“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it”

Ayn Rand

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

Benjamin Franklin

"Government can solve nearly any problem. After all, they created most of them."

WAG

"The American constitution was designed by a group of geniuses, knowing it would be administered by a group of idiots"

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"

Thomas Jefferson

"I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

Ayn Rand

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our
children: one is roots, the other is wings"

Hodding Carter, J.R.

"You can entertain without teaching, however cannot teach without entertaining."

"Why would anyone save for tomorrow, if tomorrow, that which you can buy today, will be so much more expensive. Therein lies the problem. Therein lies the plan."

WAG

“Nothing in the world will take the place of persistence … and determination”

Calvin Coolidge

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"

Mark Twain

"Belief in a falsehood does not make it true"

WAG

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."

Sir Walter Scott

“When the desire for success, overcomes the fear of failure, great things can be achieved”

WAG

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them"

Frederick Douglass

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress"

John Adams

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"

Mao Tse-Tung

"The idea of war is not to die for your country. It's to make the other poor S.O.B. die for his"

General George Patton

"At least the federal governments is there to hand you a crutch after it breaks your leg, right?"

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back"

“Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut”

Larry Elder

"If you tell a lie, but have a good reason for telling that lie, then it really is not a lie."

WAG

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I know enough to know, there is so much that I do not know”

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”

Philip K. Dick

"That may be a FACT, but it’s still just your opinion"

Liberal when confronted with reality

"Beer: helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B.C."

W. C. Fields

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar"

Robert Brault

"Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied"

Mark Twain

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts"

Abraham Lincoln

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything You gave me"

Erma Bombeck

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

Albert Einstein

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."

Wendell Phillips

“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”

Joseph Stalin

"Failure is success if we learn from it"

Malcolm S. Forbes

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”

Voltaire

"I oppose the war, but support the troops"

Liberal Lingo

“Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.”

Proverbs 17:28 (NIV)

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

Winston Churchill

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free."

Jerry Pournelle

"Debt is the worst poverty."

Thomas Fuller

"Not interested in Left vs. Right. Interested in Right vs. Wrong."

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program"

Milton Friedman

"Look to Government to solve most problems. Often going to the source is the best solution"

WAG

"Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent"

Ayn Rand

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything”

Mark Twain

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left"

Ecclesiastes 10:2 NIV

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

John F. Kennedy

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see"

Ayn Rand

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

Ian Fleming

"Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns"

Thomas Jefferson

"If you cannot prove a lie is a lie, is it then the truth?"

WAG

"The irony of life is that, by the time you're old enough to know your way around, you're not going anywhere."

“Truth is Treason to an Empire Built of Lies.”

“May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live”

"Friends, like life itself, should be cherished ALWAYS!"

WAG

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

Ronald Reagan

"Liberals have two sets of rules – one for the average Joe, the ordinary American who they have contempt for and don’t have much faith in, and another set of rules for themselves"

Rush Limbaugh

"The more one worries, the older one gets; the more one laughs, the younger one feels"

Chinese proverb

"Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy"

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think"

Adolf Hitler

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims”

Ayn Rand

“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”

Henry Louis Mencken

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy"

Ernest Benn

"Ask why until you understand"

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Always speak the truth, and you will never be concerned with your memory”

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free"

P.J. O'Rourke

"Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left. While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another, they both march in the same direction"

Paul Proctor

"The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

"A government that requires "integrity provisions" is by definition past the stage where they will do any good."

Mark Steyn

May Americans' thirst for the truth, never be quenched."

WAG

“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove
they are insured.... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”

"Courage is not the absence of fear but the presence of faith."

"If only the Nazis and Soviets had been as merciful to the innocent as America is to the guilty"

Senator Jim Talent

“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”

Edgar J. Mohn

“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court Justice)

"In America today, it's considered anti-American to be pro-American"

Rush Limbaugh

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time"

Mark Twain

"If voting made a difference,﻿ it would be illegal"

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off”

Ayn Rand

“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"

"Funny term “progressive” – oxymoron if ever I heard one when used to describe an ideology so destructive to the liberties and freedoms of the individual."

WAG

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated"

Mohandas Gandhi

"A lie is not a lie if you call it the truth."

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all"

John F. Kennedy

“It’s unprofessional to confuse loyalty with integrity”

Robert David Steele (CIA)

"Don't cry because it’s over, smile because it happened"

“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”

Otto von Bismarck

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its trouble - it empties today of its strength"

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up"

Mark Twain

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much"

Ronald Reagan

"Eternity Voter Card……. Don’t leave this life without it"

"If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are"

Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

"Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe"

Thomas Jefferson

"If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Benjamin Franklin

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

“The reason the charge of having a double standard never sticks against liberal/progressives, is because they have no standards to begin with.”

WAG

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington

"Corrupt government is host to many ironies, but three are paramount: SUCCESS is a liability, FAILURE is an asset, and as long as the INTENTIONS are pure in the public mind, better funding follows failure, not success."

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

Bertrand Russell

"If it weren't for my aversion to lying, I’d go into politics."

WAG

"Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is."

Thomas Sowell

“When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty.”

Thomas Jefferson

"An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell

"As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

Andrew Carnegie

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them...”

Arthur C. Clarke

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of citizens to give to the other”

Voltaire (1764)

“Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead”

Will Rogers

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top"

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it - If it keeps moving, regulate it - And if it stops moving, subsidize it“

Ronald Reagan

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue." - Iwo Jima

"Aspire to inspire before you expire."

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April fifteenth"

Ronald Reagan

“Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne”

Robert Green Ingersoll

“The University campus is the only place where everything that a parent has taught a young person for 18 years is completely undermined in one semester of their freshman year"

Kevin McCullough

“Wisdom is the chief element of happiness”

Sophocles

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Mahatma Ghandi

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured"

Mark Twain

“So far consumers are worried about the future. Once they start worrying about the present, we’re in trouble.”

"Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach"

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

Joseph Stalin

"Life's about the journey, not a destination."

Anne Coleman

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Ingrid Bergman

“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."

William F. Buckley Jr.

"Destroy the family, you destroy the country."

Vladimir Lenin

"Liberalism faltered when it turned out it could not cope with the truth"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

Lou Holtz

"Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go"

“To be fair, we should all be allowed our own set of facts, truth be dammed”

WAG

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear"

Mark Twain

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't"

Mark Twain

“It is not enough to merely be enlightened, one must also be engaged.”

WAG

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval"

Mark Twain

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

Margaret Thatcher

“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation”

James Madison

"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin"

Mark Twain

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"

Charles Caleb Colton

“To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will."

Ronald Reagan

"Comedy is tragedy plus time"

Woody Allen

"Free speech is a two-way street, and if you use it, you'd better be prepared to dodge oncoming traffic"

Doug Powers

"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."

Vladimir Lenin

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese"

“Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society.”

Aristotle

"Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience"

“Finding your purpose in life begins with Faith, Hope, and Charity”

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."

Mohandas Gandhi

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”

Winston Churchill

"May the thirst for truth never be quenched."

WAG

"There are lies, damned lies and statistics"

Mark Twain

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Show me your friends I'll show you your future"

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."

Cicero, 55 BC

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents"

James Madison

"Remove one freedom per generation, and soon you will have no freedom and no one would have noticed."

Karl Marx

"Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you"

John D. Ashcroft

"There’s no such thing as the future, just history that hasn’t happened yet."

Harry Truman

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

Margaret Thatcher

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted
on would save one-half the wars of the world."

Thomas Jefferson

“The honesty of the press is as great an object to society as the freedom of it.”

Thomas Paine

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Thomas Jefferson

"Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerly exercised for the good of its victims may be the most opressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

C. S. Lewis

"The progressive mind is as deep as the pavement puddle"

WAG

“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong”

Ronald Reagan

"Rather than being a selfless act of service, becoming a politician is now about enriching oneself"

WAG

"Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals"

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

Thomas Jefferson

"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is but an experiment, and we are all lab rats."

WAG

“American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it”

Dave Barry

"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin"

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child"

Abraham Lincoln

“You don’t marry someone you can live with; you marry the person who you cannot live without”

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."

Ronald Reagan

“The choices we make reveal the true nature of our character.”

“Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end.”

"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"A free nation is armed with a free press."

"We now have more people in the business of preparing tax returns than we have in the … army”

Dick Cheney

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil...”

Isaiah 5:20

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

Albert Einstein

"Golf scores are directly proportional to the number of witnesses"

"The optimist simply does not have all the facts."

WAG

"Find something that you love, and you will never work a day in your life"

“I am proud of my country, yet ashamed of my government”

"Lies serve to influence the ignorant"

WAG

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it"

Thomas Jefferson

"You're never too old to learn something stupid"

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."

Thomas Jefferson

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow"

Mark Twain

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think"

"Sometimes you do have to go backwards before you can move forward"

Noelle Pikus Pace (Olympian)

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity"

Albert Einstein

“It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance”

Spanish Proverb

"It is so much more difficult to manipulate people when they are educated and enlightened"

WAG

"Without rest, a man cannot work; without work, the rest does not give you any benefit."

Abkhasian Proverb

"Agenda 21 is not a "conspiracy theory", it is an Action Plan."

"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors"

Plato

“The path to perfection, the loftiest goal, is success in and of itself”

"People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge."

Lao-tzu

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of a Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

John Jay

"Progressivism is an illness and should be treated as such….. Institutionalize them all."

"And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men"

Ayn Rand

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

Vladimir Lenin

"Those ignorant of history are condemned to repeat it."

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Thomas Jefferson

"The primary objects of government are the peace, order, and prosperity of society. . . . To the promotion of these objects, particularly in a republican government, good morals are essential."

Oliver Ellsworth (Supreme Court Chief Justice)

“There’s only one kind of patriotism, and that’s the kind that loves and supports – not loathes and fears – America”

Rush Limbaugh

"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart"

"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”

Aristotle

"Luck is at the intersection of preparation and opportunity."

Luck

“Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves”

Benjamin Constant, Brazilian statesman

“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

Hunter S. Thompson

“We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people."

Richard Henry Lee, signer of Declaration of Independence

"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."

Milton Friedman

“If the facts don’t fit the theory, just change the facts”

Albert Einstein

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress”

Mark Twain

"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Matthew 16:26

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."

Mahatma Ghandi

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt"

Abraham Lincoln

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"

Thomas Jefferson

"Today is tomorrow’s past"

“Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

"Make sure the government treats others the same, as you would want the government to treat you. … Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution”

Charley Reese

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice"

WAG

"The measure of a man’s character is how he treats another who can do nothing for him"

Rush Limbaugh

"We have our theory; don't confuse me with the facts"

“There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give it everything”

Vince Lombardi

“A country that can't control its borders isn't really a country anymore”

Ronald Reagan

"Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed”

Robert A. Heinlein

"Ronald Reagan pursued those things which he believed in, not necessarily those things which he knew he could win"

Rush Limbaugh

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."

John Adams

"Mama used to say, dig faster, you’ll get to the bottom sooner (rather than later)."

"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil"

Ephesians 6:11

"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials."

Newt Gingrich

“I used to think of Wall Street as a financial center. I now think of it as a crime scene.”

Danny Schecter

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted"

Vladimir Lenin

"Never spend your money before you have it"

Thomas Jefferson

"With each failure, you move one step closer to success. It’s when you give up that you truly fail."

Pat Flynn

"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself."

St. Augustine

“Ignorance is an asset, when common among the majority.”

WAG

"Winners make things happen - Losers let things happen"

“It’s a funny thing about free speech: It can’t be just for your political friends. If freedom means anything, it is the one valuable gift you have to give to your worst enemies, in order to keep it for yourself”

Doug Christie

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"

Abraham Lincoln

"There are two ways of doing things: the right way, and the way they do it in Washington"

“Government is not the answer to our problems -- government is the problem"

Ronald Reagan

"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak"

"Gray hair is God's graffiti"

Bill Cosby

"Rights are granted by the individual, or governmental agency, that signs your welfare check"

WAG

“The power to tax is the power to destroy”

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives"

Mark Twain

"The Constitution shall never be construed....to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."

Samuel Adams

"Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat"

Mark Twain

"Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

John Adams

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith"

Alexis de Tocqueville

"I'll bet you never dreamed you'd look back at Jimmy Carter as the good old days."

Mitt Romney

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned in life. It goes on."

Robert Frost

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of anyone else”

"The power to unite is stronger than the power to destroy"

Anonymous

"Life is not measured by the breaths that we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!"

Unknown

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

"Ignorance truly is a choice…….. in this age of information."

WAG

"It is far easier to control those who obey the law, than to control those who disregard the law altogether."

WAG

"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step"

Dr. Martin Luther King

"There are times in one’s life, and in a nation’s life, where siting on the sidelines just isn’t an option."

WAG

“If you tax something more, you get less of it. If you subsidize something you get more of it”

"You piss off a conservative by lying. You piss off a liberal by telling the truth."

“The tragedy in life is not reaching your goals, it is to have no goals to achieve”

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously"

Oscar Wilde

”The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."

Thomas Jefferson

“Capitalism is a system whereby the rich are powerful. Communism and Socialism are systems where the powerful are rich.”

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom”

Thomas Jefferson

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public"

"The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the First Amendment"

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session"

Mark Twain

"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.”

Margaret Thatcher

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force"

Ayn Rand

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be”

Thomas Jefferson

"The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money"

Margaret Thatcher

"You can not raise the weak, by holding down the strong"

Abraham Lincoln

"When you want to help people, you tell the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell people what they want to hear."

Thomas Sowell

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."

George Washington

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

Charles de Montesquieu

"Ignorance is the lifeblood of every politician"

WAG

“I used to pray for somebody to speak out, to stand up and defend our liberties, … then I realized I am somebody.”

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”

Ronald Reagan

"Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving"

Bill McIntire - NRA Spokesman (1992)

"A bad day on the lake is better than a good day at the office"

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."

H.L. Mencken

"If you really want to judge a man's character, give him power"

"A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give."

Unknown

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf"

Bob Hope

"Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”

Margaret Thatcher

“If you have truth on your side, you really don't need to lie”

Paul Jacob

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

Ronald Reagan

"I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money"

Bob Hope

"For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle"

Winston Churchill

"Ignorance is the seed of APATHY"

WAG

"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."

John Adams

"Sometimes, it's what you do not do, that makes you who you are"

"You can observe a lot just by watchin"

Yogi Berra

"It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future"

Yogi Berra

"I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty"

Strom Thurmond

"The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.”

Ronald Reagan

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Benjamin Franklin

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

Patrick Henry

“One must indoctrinate a child while he still fits width-wise on the bed.”

Soviet Union saying

"It’s not really lying if you know I’m not telling the truth."

WAG

Thinking is hard work – that is why so few engage in it”

Mark Twain

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"

John Adams

"Greed, is a great motivator, yet a powerful destroyer."

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

Confucius

“It is not the responsibility of parents to pave the road for their children, but to provide them a road map”

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”

John Adams (1826)

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half”

"Bureaucracy is nothing more than the hardening of an organization's arteries"

William P. Anthony

"Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."

James Madison

"Today, too many polititians seek public office rather than public service."

“What matters is not the truth, but what we choose (are told) to believe.”

WAG

"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees"

"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

Benjamin Franklin

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare"

Mark Twain

“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened”

Norman Thomas - Socialist Party Presidential candidate (1976)

Ships are safe in harbors, but that's not what ships are for...

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education"

Mark Twain

"If you’re not getting flack, you’re not over the target"

"This is like deja vu all over again"

Yogi Berra

"May your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door"

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence"

C. A. Beard

"If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong"

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”

Aaron Levenstein

“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’”

Harry Browne

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them"

Bill Vaughan

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"It is far easier to introduce a government program than to get rid of it"

Milton Friedman

"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party"

Winston Churchill

“Tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth”

Joseph Goebbels

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace"

George Washington

"Every morning is the dawn of a new error."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

Edmund Burke

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Chinese Proverb

"Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom"

Mark Twain

"Knowledge is power yes, and often a burden as well"

WAG

"The lesson of history is that people never learn the lessons of history."

"Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times"

Niccolo Machiavelli

"There is no right way to do wrong"

“Better to deny a child some of life’s wants and pleasures, than to deny them a brother or sister.”

Pope Saint John Paul II

"Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees."

American Patriot

"How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire"

"I have more guns than I need but fewer than I want"

Mike Adams

"Government Integrity: An Oxymoron"

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

George Santayana

“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates"

Tacitus

"Reputation is what others perceive you to be. Character is what you are"

John Wooden

“The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Winston Churchill

"Knowledge is power."

Sir Francis Bacon

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The great ignorant failure of the left: Though it has learned how to get elected, it has not learned how to govern."

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value"

Albert Einstein

"Tis better to be ignorant and happy, than informed and upset"

WAG

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

James Madison

"An armed society is a polite society"

Robert A. Heinlein

"Profanity is the act of a feeble mind attempting to express itself forcibly"

"A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it."

"Just because someone says something that’s not factual, does not mean it’s not truthful, if they believe what they are saying."

Liberal Logic

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

James Madison

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to be stupid.”

Benjamin Franklin

“One man with courage is a majority”

Thomas Jefferson

"I love my job, I love fighting for what I believe in, I love having fun while I am doing it, I love reporting stories that the complex refuses to report, I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and famously I enjoy enemies."

Andrew Breitbart

"Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it"

"A woman with a gun can't be beaten"

GR

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead"

Benjamin Franklin

"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”

Margaret Thatcher

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there”

John Wooden

“Perception is today’s reality”

"Sometimes things are so obvious, they appear unbelievable."

WAG

"All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures"

Julius Caesar

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic”

“Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’”

Margaret Thatcher

"A memorandum is written to protect the writer -- not to inform the reader"

Dean Acheson

"Thinking was OUTLAWED in the 1980's. The first time you think is the last time you are a Democrat.”

Evan Sayet

"We are one justice away from the Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. Constitution is unconstitutional."

WAG

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Upton Sinclair

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked”

Voltaire

"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective - election and power are"

Cal Thomas

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials."

George Mason

"Abortion is not a woman’s rights issue but a human rights issue"

Kathy Ireland

"When GOD fights for Israel, Israel wins"

“America is the best half-educated country in the world”

Nicholas Murray Butler

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it”

Margaret Sanger (Founder of Planned Parenthood)

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production"

Ayn Rand

"Terrorism is the weapon of the weak, against the strong"

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

James Madison

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

"When you find you are digging yourself into a hole, dig faster, you’ll get to your destination sooner”

WAG

"Spend other people's money as though it was your own"

WAG

"Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does"

Whittaker Chambers

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily"

George Washington

"Law, once a shield of the innocent, is now a weapon in the hands of government"

Paul Craig Roberts

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed”

Joseph Stalin

"Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own"

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."

Tullius Cicero

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."

Ronald Reagan

"Who better to solve a problem then the people responsible for creating it in the first place."

WAG

"One of the greatest ironies of our day is that in this age of information, so many are so ignorant"

WAG

"A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip"

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy"

Winston Churchill

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach"

Albert Einstein

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys”

P. J. O'Rourke

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing"

Albert Einstein

"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it"

Mark Twain

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."

George Washington

"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."

Vladimir Lenin

"Everything the Democrats do is the result of a political calculation designed to take advantage of something going wrong"

Rush Limbaugh

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Thomas Jefferson

"Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with"

“One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress”

John Adams

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Philip K. Dick

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”

Edmund Burke

"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors."

Plato

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"

Thomas Jefferson

"Saying a gun shoots people is like saying a pencil makes mistakes, or a spoon makes people fat."

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

“My greatest thought is my accountability to God”

Daniel Webster

"Only an educated and informed people will be a free people"

John F. Kennedy

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing"

Mark Twain

"The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list"

"Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing"

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror"

Byrd Baggett

"Wise men learn from their mistakes, wiser men learn from the mistakes of others"

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."

Josef Stalin

"It’s not the votes that count. It’s who counts the votes"

Joseph Stalin

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

Patrick Henry

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks"

Doug Larson

"Though something may be true, if not widely known, it cannot be considered fact."

Liberal Logic

"Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it"

Harry S. Truman

"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays."

Aulus Persius Flaccus

“A goal without a plan is just a wish”

Larry Elder

"Democracy is the worst form of government except all others"

Winston Churchill

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."

George Orwell

"Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience to God"

Benjamin Franklin

"Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail"

"A joy shared is doubled, a sorrow shared is halved"

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned"

Mark Twain

"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."

Anonymous

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain"

Mark Twain

"Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were"

"Great men do not set out to be great, they set out to do great things"

"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one"

Mark Twain

“The same administration that can’t build a web site, just took over the internet.”

Brad Thor

“A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is."

"it is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."

Benjamin Franklin

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them"

George Mason

"All men by nature desire knowledge."

Aristotle

“Don't ever argue with an idiot.... they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

Anonymous

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."

Alexander Hamilton

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas Edison

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"It is far easier to keep the law abiding in line, than those who disregard the law altogether."

WAG

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”

Vince Lombardi

"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope"

Karl Marx

“Nothing is more powerful in a democracy than knowledge”

Rudy Giuliani

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

Samuel Adams

"Debt is the slavery of the free."

Publilius Syrus

"The road to success is littered with many setbacks, never failures."

WAG

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."

Edward Langley (artist)

“I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”

Margaret Thatcher

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"

Mark Twain

"The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice"

Plato

“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

"I am a simple man who happens to still possess what at one time was all too common….. A thing called sense."

“No matter how fast a lie is, the truth will catch up with her.”

Dutch Proverb

"That which does not destroy me, makes me stronger"

Friedrich Nietzsche

People once came to America to GIVE all that they had, to become all that they could. Now they come only to TAKE all that they can.

WAG

"Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference"

"Expect the best, prepare for the worst, capitalize on what comes"

"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing"

Miecyslaw Kasprzyk

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one"

Alexander Hamilton

"We provide Americans an education in exchange for their commitment to serve in our armed forces, while at the same time, we offer amnesty to illegal immigrants in exchange for their commitment to vote Democrat for life."

WAG

"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."

Vladimir Lenin

"They keep saying, 'A school is supposed to be a safe place!' Yeah well so is a womb."

Pastor John MacArthur

"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something"

"That government governs best that governs least"

Thomas Jefferson

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter"

Mark Twain

“If a man doesn’t find something he is willing to die for, he isn’t fit to live”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer”

Ludwig von Mises

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target"

“Men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning"

Albert Einstein

"Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state."

Vladimir Lenin

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."

Thomas Sowell

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."

Samuel Johnson

“Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency: their sole object is gain”

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Every time Congress makes a joke, it’s a law. And every time it makes a law, it’s a joke"

Will Rogers

“To possess a memory is to be blessed with a priceless good. It is our link to the past, our guidepost to the present and our passport to the future”

"One man with courage is a majority"

Thomas Jefferson

"This year will go down in history; for the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"

Adolph Hitler (1935)

"When we lose GOD, it is not GOD who is lost"

"History will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening."

Ronald Reagan

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

Confucious

"An informed public is essential to a democracy"

Thomas Jefferson

"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us."

Thomas Jefferson

"To some it's a six-pack, to me it's Support Group Salvation in a can"

Leo Durocher

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax"

Albert Einstein

“The first duty of government is the protection of life, not its destruction. The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.”

Thomas Jefferson

"Public sector employment....... because it sure beats work."

"A lie is an untruth told with intent to deceive."

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian."

Henry Ford

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves”

Abraham Lincoln

"You don’t get ahead in life by looking into your rear view mirror"

WAG

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so"

Mark Twain

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities”

Ayn Rand

"Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass."

Isoroku Yamamoto

“Gold is important, but so are guns and ammunition, and it’s the guys with the guns and ammunition that’ll get the gold in the end”

“A person who lives by logic and studies history and tries to implement the lessons learned by history cannot begin to rationally explain the conduct of this president or his attorney general or this administration,” Nugent said. “It is psychotic, it is crazy, it is illogical.”

Ted Nugent

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."

Douglas Casey

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today"

Cherokee proverb

"The goal of socialism is communism."

Vladimir Lenin

"He who would give up a little liberty in return for a little security deserves neither liberty nor security"

Benjamin Franklin

"Influence peddling and corruption are bipartisan sins: those out of power allege them, those in power commit them"

“If you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they would not reach a conclusion”

"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief."

Thomas Fuller

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets”

Will Rogers

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins”

William Pitt

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that aren't true”

Mark Twain

"If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed"

Mark Twain

“Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to”

Benjamine A. Rooge

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

Frederic Bastiat

At that point when we put America first, will be the time that this nation begins to heal itself”

WAG

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it"

Mark Twain

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul"

Yiddish Proverb

"A great man never ignores the simplicity of a child"

Chinese fortune cookie

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life"

Mark Twain

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”

James Madison

"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes"

Thomas Paine

"BEER: "I" before "E," except in Budweiser."

Professor Irwin Corey

"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."

Theodore M. Hesburgh

"Statistics are not intended to enlighten, but instead to deceive"

WAG

"Tell me and I forget - Teach me and I remember - Involve me and I learn"

Benjamin Franklin

"Heroes get remembered - but legends never die"

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

“The Nine most feared words – I am with the government and here to help”

Ronald Reagan

"Until such time that compassion is measured by helping people to help themselves, we will only ensure the enslavement of others, in the very name of compassion"

WAG

"The truth is usually pretty simple, but as I’m sure you would agree, finding it in the mainstream media is next to impossible"

Ann Coulter

"Knowledge is a powerful tool. Without it, a powerful tool one becomes."

WAG

“The tragedy in life is not reaching your goals, it is to have no goals to achieve”

"Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace"

Rod Serling

It's not that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so"

Ronald Reagan

"Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt"

Tacitus, The Annals III.27

"I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar"

Mark Twain

"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."

Milton Friedman

"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron"

Joseph Stalin

"Laughing at oneself is often the best source of humor"

WAG

"For a representative republic to prosper, much less survive, its citizens must be both informed and engaged."

WAG

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself”

James Madison

"Better a broken promise than none at all"

Mark Twain

"It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man."

Psalm 118:8

"I could give up chocolate but I'm no quitter!"

“The very people, who will go to the ends of the earth to defend the most heinous of murderers, do not give a second thought to the taking of an innocent life”

WAG

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

Aldous Huxley

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you voted for Obama to prove that you were not a racist - Who will you vote for in 2012 to prove that you are not an idiot?”

"The Second Amendment has never been about hunting or crime prevention; it’s about keeping our government in check."

Patrice Lewis

"Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God"

“It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think."

Eugene Ionesco

“Paper money is founded upon fraud and knavery”

George Mason (letter to George Washington)

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Ronald Reagan

"If we agreed 100 percent of the time, one of us wouldn't be necessary"

"I will prepare, and some day my chance will come"

Abraham Lincoln

“When the power of Love overcomes the love of Power, the world will know PEACE”

Jimi Hendrix

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises"

Demosthenes

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Taylor - 1816)

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves”

Winston Churchill

"When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water"

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

John F. Kennedy

"Plan ahead, Noah didn’t build the Ark in a storm"

"America's liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”

Thomas Jefferson

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."

George Washington

“First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Pastor Martin Niemöller

"Our political parties are broken and have failed miserably. They stand for nothing and will compromise everything”

David Stockman

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not"

Thomas Jefferson

"Something that can’t go on forever, won’t."

Herb Stein (Economist)

"Half the people you know are below average"

“It’s better to die a Hero, than live the life of a Coward”

Charles Woods (father of murdered Benghazi SEAL Tyrone Woods) in a message to President Obama

"When in doubt tell the truth"

Mark Twain

"When people fear government, there is tyranny – When government fears the people, there is liberty"

Thomas Paine

"Adversity makes a good man better"

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live"

Mark Twain

"The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.”

Margaret Thatcher

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

Saul Bellow

“If government didn’t create problems they’d be left will none to solve”

WAG

"If it ain't broken, fix it until it is"

Government Motto

"The more I know, the more I realize how much I don’t know."

“The one (a president) can confer no privileges whatever; the other (the king) can make denizens of aliens, noblemen of commoners; can erect corporations with all the rights incident to corporate bodies.”

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 69

“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.”

Thomas Paine (December 23, 1776)

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

“When your talent interests a human need, you are on the path of your life’s purpose”

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail"

Benjamin Franklin

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it"

Albert Einstein

“An individual who believes their lies cannot be considered a liar.”

Progressive apologist

"Money is like manure; If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell"

Clint Murchison

"Look at yourself, like yourself, and find the positive"

Dana Buchman

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

George Bernard Shaw

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Ignorance is a choice one makes, often with happiness being the desired outcome. They are however mutually exclusive.”

WAG

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none"

Thomas Jefferson

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Elizabeth Bibesco

"God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for her first question."

"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."

“Rarely is it said after Senate debate that everything has not been said, rather it is whether every Senator has said it”

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain"